RAAAAAAR

then proceeds to ditch us for a couple of girls he met there. As if that wasn't bad enough, they weren't even cute. A couple tiny asians with fucked up teeth and they were really fucking annoying. Ditching your friends is bad enough, but at least have some standards man. Although honestly I'd have let them give me a bj, a bj is a bj after all.

Anyway, poker is good, third straight $10k month is looking to be well within my grasp. Problem right now is I feel I'm almost just playing for the sake of playing. I really want to see what my winrate at NL600 will be like at the end of the year or after 100k hands so I'm almost just playing to reach that goal. That's not necessarily bad but I'm not concentrating as much as I should. I don't deserve to bitch though since after 20k hands my winrate is at 12ptbb/100.

-Mehdi

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October is going good, despite dropping over 2 buyins at NL2k. I've determined I'm just in over my head in those games, as much because my br isn't near big enough to support the games as the skill of the regulars. The difference between NL400/NL600 regs and NL2k regs is like night and day. I believe 10k a month isn't a terribly unrealistic goal at NL600 so long as I put in 20k hands but I've also seen I've got a ways to go before I'm ready to play with the big dogs.

As for the request, I'm looking for a tutor in Mandarin Chinese. As I'm already taking Mandarin at the local community college, I don't need someone to actually teach me the entire language, I'm just looking for someone fluent in the language to offer me a little extra supplimental help and gauge how I'm doing / what I'm lagging in or need to work on. Probably just an hour or two a week. I'm not fluent in the least bit as I've only taken mandarin for about a month. PM me if interested.

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And he had some things to say while leaving. The quote that really got my attention is this:

"The motivation for the decision is two-fold," he continued. "I know Fedor (Emelianenko) just signed with another organization and that's the only real fight that makes sense for me at 44 years old as the heavyweight champion of the UFC. That's the fight I wanted and if that can't happen it doesn't make sense for me to compete with all these other guys. And then obviously that's not going to happen now. And, two, I'm tired of being taken advantage of, played as the nice guy and basically swimming against the current with the management of the UFC. I have a lot of other things going on in my life that I'm doing just fine with. I don't need the problems. I don't feel like I get the respect I deserve from the organization, and that's motivation No. 2 for the letter of resignation that was sent today."

His first reason sounds at least somewhat legitimate, though whiny. Yes, Fedor and the UFC could not make a deal and that is really too bad for everyone involved with mma but it's not like the UFC heavyweight division is full of scrubs. They just so happen to have the 'other' greatest heavyweight in the history of mma in minotauro noguiera. While it's not on the level of fedor vs randy to call it a blockbuster fight would be an understatement. If Couture really is sincere about resigning because he was unable to fight fedor, then he would sign with m-1 to fight him there. But I doubt this happens.

It was his second reason that really irked me. To claim that that he doesn't get the respect he deserves is down right laughable. He is the first of the new age UFC fighters to be inducted into the UFC hall of fame. He has been given more title shots than any other UFC fighter in history. He retires after getting knocked out only to unretire and compete in a weight division he hasn't competed in in 5 years and is given an immediate title shot for crying out loud. What more can the UFC do?

In the end it came down to money, though. He was upset because he wasn't the second highest paid fighter like he was told. "All us athletes are all pretty tightly intertwined," he said. "You hear what other guys were paid signing bonuses and what other guys were paid on the record and off the record with bonuses. I've heard Chuck's numbers. Tito's numbers. Hughes' numbers. Quinton's numbers. Cro Cop, Wanderlei. I heard what they were offering Fedor, and it's insulting."

This is the type of thing that gives players like Terrell Owens such bad names. No, he doesn't make as much as liddell or mirko, but he's still one of the highest paid athletes in the UFC. He makes 250k a fight before bonuses, there are better fighters than Couture that make less than half that and are damn happy for the opportunity. Complaining about being only one of the highest paid athletes in UFC history instead of THE highest paid athlete in UFC history is ridiculous.

If Randy Couture wants to retire because he feels like there's nothing left for him to accomplish with fedor out of the picture, then so be it. But to talk like that about the UFC which has treated him like a king and practically deified him to the fans is just a slap in the face.

-Mehdi

P.S. my friend Gary pointed out that this may actually be good in the long run, and in a way he's right. There are some amazing fighters that make 40k a fight, and while that's more than enough to live and train on, that isn't enough to bring in top notch athletes from other combat sports...most notably boxing. If more fighters complain about pay and start signing with organizations like K-1, m-1, or EliteXC it will force the UFC to really up the pay scale for fighters. This will in turn cause a lot of athletes to choose mma instead of something else which will do nothing but good especially 10 years down the road.

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Kyra Gracie is the hottest woman alive. Even hotter than alba.







Erica Montoya you fool you should have just tapped before stepping on the mat. Now you're caught in the ANACONDA.




So you may be asking yourself, what truly makes her so hot? Is she truly hotter than Jessica Alba? Well let me tell you something you fucking donk, just examine their careers. Alba is an actress, which means the most you get from her is a faked orgasm. Kyra Gracie is the greatest womens grappler and bjj fighter in the world, do you understand what her hips are capable of? She will annihilate you.

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So I had a poker blog with a friend from a while ago, and neither of us used it for about half a year and we both forgot the password. I've decided I'll just do all my bloggings here. In any case, it's a rule you have to start out with your story so here's mine:

I started about 3 years ago, a friend was having a lot of success in poker so he got a bunch of us together to give it a shot. I started with a $50 loan and played the penny tables and went up from there. everything was going fine for a few months and I built up to NL100, then I hit a huge downswing and said fuck this shit and stopped playing.

After a while I decided I'd try again, this time I tried with sngs. Sng's weren't really stressful or difficult persay, but my winrate was tiny and I could never build up the money necessary to meet bills. After a while I once again said fuck this shit and took another long break from poker.

This time I sort of forced myself into poker, my mom was having difficulties meeting her bills and consequently her house was up for foreclosure. I figured the only way we could keep the house is if I somehow managed to win the money in poker. I had about 2 weeks to win the money and I needed to build a $200 br loaned to me from a friend to $2k...good luck eh? Well, the second day in I decided I would take a shot at a $20 tourney, if I could win it we'd have the money. I didn't win, but I did come in second for $1700~ so I was able to get the money for the house without too much work. The funny thing is I am just horrible at tourneys, I've played at least 200 tourneys since starting poker and that score is by far my biggest ever.

After getting the money for the house, I was once again looking at a 3 digit bankroll and the prospect of grinding sngs made me want to puke. Instead, I tried out 6 max limit. While the rake was killer, the competition was unbelievably easy. This marks the moment I was actually able to start making significant amounts of money playing poker and I would often have a 5 digit bankroll. Unfortunately, the swings can be vicious, and often I'd have a weekend where I would lose half my roll only to make it back and then some the very next weekend. The competition also seemed to spike at the 10/20 and 15/30 mark, so after a swing that sent my bankroll from 15k to 3k, I decided once again it was time for a change.

Well, after all that I ended up back at the start, no limit cash games. I started back up late November 06' at NL200 and over the next couple months I would run very hot bringing my bankroll up once again around the 5 digit mark. I would grind NL200 for about 100k hands (8 months given how much I play a month) and end up with a winrate of 6ptbb/100, I felt really proud of it not only because I did well but also because a lot of those 100k hands was me simply learning how to properly play. I got pretty bored with the grind though.

That was around the time the tourney contest started up here on lp.net. I figured that would offer a nice diversion from the grind for a month and maybe in the process I could become a reasonably decent tourney player. No such luck. The whole thing was just disastrous. Not only was I playing badly, but I had terrible luck on the bubble. I ended up stopping all together a couple weeks before the contest was set to end after it became apparent myth's team was unbeatable.

After losing a lot of money in that contest and with a br that offered little hope for moving up higher than NL200 in the near future, going back to the grind seemed even worse than before. So I ended up doing the worst thing imaginable in the world of poker, I decided I would short stack. To save what little dignity I could, I made sure to never leave a table after doubling up and would often play most of a session sitting on a full buyin or more. Ironically, most of my winnings in this short period of time would come when I had 50+ bb's, but even still I really did not want to stunt my growth as a poker player by being a short stacker.

About a month ago I felt I had a strong enough roll to go ahead and grind NL600. So far it's been going great and my bankroll is huge. I'm hoping to get in 100k hands of NL600 by the end of the year so I can accurately assess my winrate and decide what I intend to do from there. I have a lot of plans for the upcoming year and I'll need a whole lot of money to do them with, so right now my biggest leak that I need to fix is simply getting my lazy ass on the computer and putting in a good # of hours each day.

-Mehdi

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